The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-06

Justly cHpigcu upon hcI helulnls-
ences," which, it is thought, will be q
valuable contribution to the war litera-
ture of the day.
DR. Sewers, of Washington, who
gravely announced several weeks ago
that the president wouldn't live long il
he died pretty soon, is n stanch admir-
er of the head of the nation, and hopes
that his dire prediction my not be full
filled.
"A History of the Court of Spain"
is to be published by Count Morphy,
the former tutor and private secretary
of King Alfonso. The queen of Spain,
it is said, spends several hours with
him every day looking over documents
relating TO it.
LEO RUECKERT, NJ. d., grandson OF
the famous German poet, and assistent
at the clinic of Erlangen university,
has just been invited by Duke Karl
Theodor Of Bavaria, the eminent occul-
list, brother of the empress of Austria,
to become his assistant.
RICHARD RANDOLPH MCMAHON, who
is talked of as the successor of Mr..
Maynard as second comptroller of the
treasury, is journalist and poet.
He has been in the comptroller's Office
for some time, and is a man of fine
address and good business qualities.
THE insanity of II. G.. Durnall, re-
Gently arrested in New York on n
lunacy charge, took the peculiar form
Of ordering eXtravagant q Ia carte
dinners with profuson of wine, which
he would pay for on the spot, and then
walk out without eating bite or drink
ing drop
THE Berlin Geographical society has
received from ID. Wagner unique
present in the shape of complete set
Of all the books, pamphlets, essays, etc.
published by Alexander Won Humboldt,
1t would take about thirty years to
make such collection again, even il it
were at all possible.
The late Judge Pierce. of Philadel-
phia, was conspicuous advocate
of freedom and humanity in near
ly every case tried in that city under
the fugitive slave law. In the famous
Dangerlield case he and his colleagues
kept up an unbroken argument from
the opening of the court one morning
until sunrise the next morning.
PRACTICALLY California has four
United States senators, Nevada sena-
tors never live in thai state, but when
not in Washington make their home
in San Francisco. Fair. whose term
has just expired, did not spend a week
in n evada during his six years as sena-
tor. Jones lives in San Francisco, as
does Stewart, who succeeds Fair.
A LIFE-LIZE statue of Prince Albert
has been the most prominent object in
in the private grounds of Balmoral
castle for many years past 1t is now
to have companion in the shape of
a similar statue of the queen, which is
TO be presented to her majesty as jub-
lice memorial by the tenants on the
Balmoral, Abergeldie, and Birkhall es-
tates.
The late Gen. Fare, who was
French minister of war from 1879 to
1881. used to be, in the days of his
Tunisian expepition. called Gen. Far
Niente by his political opponents. 1t
was he who abolished the use of drums
in the French army. but his successor
restored them, and Gen. Fares re-
mains were borne to the tomb TO ths
sound of mufiled drums.
FLORIDA journals are advocating tho
holding of a sub-tropical exhibition at
Jacksonville during the winter Of
1878 for the purpose of making a
comprehensive display of the agricul-
tural. horticultural. and industrial re-
sources OF the state. They realize that
something must be done to counteract
the attractions of California and draw